Cookery

This is a vital skill for survival in the Unreal world. Cooked food has five grades: awful, bland, normal (no indicator), tasty and delicious. These grades affect nutrition, but so slightly as to be unnoticeable.

Worst of the the long-term preservation methods but still takes a decent amount of time before the food spoils. A bag of salt is quite an expensive item. You can preserve up to 120 cuts of meat with one 12 lbs bag. The process takes 5 days.

Boiling meats and fishes are also the best way to process low nutritious species like elks or pikes. 12 pounds of elk meats or pike fish can be boiled down to a pot of 6 pound, making each bite more nutritious than a piece of roasted meat or fish.

Herbal beverage, aka Boiling plants, can be used as drinks with various restotative or simulating qualities, PROVIDED that you have necessary herbs. They also, less frequently, can be used as seasonings in certain dishes.